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JAVA FILES AND I/O STREAMS A stream can be defined as a sequence of data. The InputStream is used to read data from a source and the OutputStream is used for writing data to a destination. The java.io package contains nearly every class you might ever need to perform input and output (I/O) in Java. All these streams represent an input source and an output destination. The stream in the java.io package supports many data such as primitives, Object, localized characters, etc. Java does provide strong, flexible support for I/O as it relates to files and networks but this tutorial covers very basic functionality related to streams and I/O. We would see most commonly used example one by one. READING CONSOLE INPUT Java input console is accomplished by reading from System.in. To obtain a character‐based stream that is attached to the console, you wrap System.in in a BufferedReader object, to create a character stream. Here is most common syntax to obtain BufferedReader: BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
Once BufferedReader is obtained, we can use read( ) method to reach a character or readLine( ) method to read a string from the console. READING CHARACTERS FROM CONSOLE To read a character from a BufferedReader, we would read( ) method whose sytax is as follows: int read( ) throws IOException
Each time that read( ) is called, it reads a character from the input stream and returns it as an integer value. It returns .1 when the end of the stream is encountered. As you can see, it can throw an IOException (more about exceptions see theme 12 – Exceptions). The following program demonstrates read( ) by reading characters from the console until the user types a "q": // Use a BufferedReader to read characters from the console.
import java.io.*;
public class BRRead {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
{
char c;
// Create a BufferedReader using System.in
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println("Enter characters, 'q' to quit.");
// read characters
do {
c = (char) br.read();
System.out.println(c);
} while(c != 'q');
}
}
Here is a sample run: Enter characters, 'q' to quit.
123abcq
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2
3
a
b
c
q
READING STRINGS FROM CONSOLE To read a string from the keyboard, use the version of readLine( ) that is a member of the BufferedReader class. Its general form is shown here: String readLine( ) throws IOException
The following program demonstrates BufferedReader and the readLine( ) method. The program reads and displays lines of text until you enter the word "end": // Read a string from console using a BufferedReader.
import java.io.*;
public class BRReadLines {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
{
// Create a BufferedReader using System.in
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
String str;
System.out.println("Enter lines of text.");
System.out.println("Enter 'end' to quit.");
do {
str = br.readLine();
System.out.println(str);
} while(!str.equals("end"));
}
}
Here is a sample run: Enter lines of text.
Enter 'end' to quit.
This is line one
This is line one
This is line two
This is line two
end
end
WRITING CONSOLE OUTPUT Console output is most easily accomplished with print( ) and println( ), described earlier. These methods are defined by the class PrintStream which is the type of the object referenced by System.out. Even though System.out is a byte stream, using it for simple program output is still acceptable. Because PrintStream is an output stream derived from OutputStream, it also implements the low‐level method write( ). Thus, write( ) can be used to write to the console. The simplest form of write( ) defined by PrintStream is shown here: void write(int byteval)
This method writes to the stream the byte specified by byteval. Although byteval is declared as an integer, only the low‐order eight bits are written. EXAMPLE Here is a short example that uses write( ) to output the character "A" followed by a newline to the screen: import java.io.*;
// Demonstrate System.out.write().
public class WriteDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
int b;
b = 'A';
System.out.write(b);
System.out.write('\n');
}
}
This would produce simply 'A' character on the output screen. A
NOTE You will not often use write( ) to perform console output because print( ) and println( ) are substantially easier to use. READING AND WRITING FILES As described earlier, a stream can be defined as a sequence of data. The InputStream is used to read data from a source and the OutputStream is used for writing data to a destination. Here is a hierarchy of classes to deal with Input and Output streams: Object  OutputStream
 InputStream  FilterOutputStream  BufferedOutputStresm  DataOutputStream  PrintStream  FileOutputStream  ByteArrayOutputStream  ByteArrayInputStream  FileInputStream  StringBufferInputStream SequenceInputStream  FilterInputStream  BufferedInputStream  dataInputStream  PushbackInputStream The three important streams are FileInputStream, ByteArrayInputStream and DataInputStream for inputs and three streams for outputs FileOutputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream and DataOutputStream. They all would be discussed below: FILEINPUTSTREAM This stream is used for reading data from the files. Objects can be created using the keyword new and there are several types of constructors available. Following constructor takes a file name as a string to create an input stream object to read the file.: InputStream f = new FileInputStream("C:/java/hello");
Following constructor takes a file object to create an input stream object to read the file. First we create a file object using File() method as follows: File f = new File("C:/java/hello");
InputStream f = new FileInputStream(f);
Once you have InputStream object in hand, then there is a list of helper methods which can be used to read to stream or to do other operations on the stream. 1 Methods with Description public void close() throws IOException{} This method closes the file output stream. Releases any system resources associated with the file. Throws 2 3 4 5 an IOException. protected void finalize()throws IOException {} This method cleans up the connection to the file. Ensures that the close method of this file output stream is called when there are no more references to this stream. Throws an IOException. public int read(int r)throws IOException{} This method reads the specified byte of data from the InputStream. Returns an int. Returns the next byte of data and ‐1 will be returned if it's end of file. public int read(byte[] r) throws IOException{} This method reads r.length bytes from the input stream into an array. Returns the total number of bytes read. If end of file ‐1 will be returned. public int available() throws IOException{} Gives the number of bytes that can be read from this file input stream. Returns an int. BYTEARRAYINPUTSTREAM The ByteArrayInputStream class allows a buffer in the memory to be used as an InputStream. The input source is a byte array. There are following forms of constructors to create ByteArrayInputStream objects Takes a byte array as the parameter: ByteArrayInputStream bArray = new ByteArrayInputStream(byte [] a);
Another form takes an array of bytes, and two ints, where off is the first byte to be read and len is the number of bytes to be read. ByteArrayInputStream bArray = new ByteArrayInputStream(byte []a,
int off,
int len)
Once you have ByteArrayInputStream object in hand then there is a list of helper methods which can be used to read the stream or to do other operations on the stream. 1 2 3 4 5 Methods with Description public int read() This method reads the next byte of data from the InputStream. Returns an int as the next byte of data. If it is end of file then it returns ‐1. public int read(byte[] r, int off, int len) This method reads upto len number of bytes starting from off from the input stream into an array. Returns the total number of bytes read. If end of file ‐1 will be returned public int available() Gives the number of bytes that can be read from this file input stream. Returns an int that gives the number of bytes to be read. public void mark(int read) This sets the current marked position in the stream. The parameter gives the maximum limit of bytes that can be read before the marked position becomes invalid. public long skip(long n) Skips n number of bytes from the stream. This returns the actual number of bytes skipped EXAMPLE Following is the example to demonstrate ByteArrayInputStream and ByteArrayOutputStream import java.io.*;
public class ByteStreamTest {
public static void main(String args[])throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream bOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream(12);
while( bOutput.size()!= 10 ) {
// Gets the inputs from the user
bOutput.write(System.in.read());
}
byte b [] = bOutput.toByteArray();
System.out.println("Print the content");
for(int x= 0 ; x < b.length; x++) {
// printing the characters
System.out.print((char)b[x] + "
");
}
System.out.println("
");
int c;
ByteArrayInputStream bInput = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
System.out.println("Converting characters to Upper case " );
for(int y = 0 ; y < 1; y++ ) {
while(( c= bInput.read())!= -1) {
System.out.println(Character.toUpperCase((char)c));
}
bInput.reset();
}
}
}
Here is the sample run of the above program: asdfghjkly
Print the content
a
s
d
f
g
h
j
k
l
y
Converting characters to Upper case
A
S
D
F
G
H
J
K
L
Y
DATAINPUTSTREAM The DataInputStream is used in the context of InputStream and can be used to read primitives. Following is the constructor to create an InputStream: InputStream in = DataInputStream(InputStream in);
Once you have DataInputStream object in hand, then there is a list of helper methods, which can be used to read the stream or to do other operations on the stream. 1 2 3 4 Methods with Description public final int read(byte[] r, int off, int len)throws IOException Reads up to len bytes of data from the input stream into an array of bytes. Returns the total number of bytes read into the buffer otherwise ‐1 if it is end of file. Public final int read(byte [] b)throws IOException Reads some bytes from the inputstream an stores in to the byte array. Returns the total number of bytes read into the buffer otherwise ‐1 if it is end of file. (a) public final Boolean readBooolean()throws IOException, (b) public final byte readByte()throws IOException, (c) public final short readShort()throws IOException (d) public final Int readInt()throws IOException These methods will read the bytes from the contained InputStream. Returns the next two bytes of the InputStream as the specific primitive type. public String readLine() throws IOException Reads the next line of text from the input stream. It reads successive bytes, converting each byte separately into a character, until it encounters a line terminator or end of file; the characters read are then returned as a String. EXAMPLE Following is the example to demonstrate DataInputStream. This example reads 5 lines given in a file test.txt and convert those lines into capital letters and finally copies them into another file test1.txt. import java.io.*;
public class Test{
public static void main(String args[])throws IOException{
DataInputStream d = new DataInputStream(new
FileInputStream("test.txt"));
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(new
FileOutputStream("test1.txt"));
String count;
while((count = d.readLine()) != null){
String u = count.toUpperCase();
System.out.println(u);
out.writeBytes(u + " ,");
}
d.close();
out.close();
}
}
Here is the sample run of the above program: THIS
THIS
THIS
THIS
THIS
IS
IS
IS
IS
IS
TEST
TEST
TEST
TEST
TEST
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5
,
,
,
,
,
FILEOUTPUTSTREAM FileOutputStream is used to create a file and write data into it. The stream would create a file, if it doesn't already exist, before opening it for output. Here are two constructors which can be used to create a FileOutputStream object. Following constructor takes a file name as a string to create an input stream object to write the file: OutputStream f = new FileOutputStream("C:/java/hello")
Following constructor takes a file object to create an output stream object to write the file. First, we create a file object using File() method as follows: File f = new File("C:/java/hello");
OutputStream f = new FileOutputStream(f);
Once you have OutputStream object in hand, then there is a list of helper methods, which can be used to write to stream or to do other operations on the stream. 1 2 3 4 Methods with Description public void close() throws IOException{} This method closes the file output stream. Releases any system resources associated with the file. Throws an IOException protected void finalize()throws IOException {} This method cleans up the connection to the file. Ensures that the close method of this file output stream is called when there are no more references to this stream. Throws an IOException public void write(int w)throws IOException{} This methods writes the specified byte to the output stream public void write(byte[] w) Writes w.length bytes from the mentioned byte array to the OutputStream EXAMPLE Following is the example to demonstrate InputStream and OutputStream: import java.io.*;
public class fileStreamTest{
public static void main(String args[]){
try{
byte bWrite [] = {11,21,3,40,5};
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("test.txt");
for(int x=0; x < bWrite.length ; x++){
os.write( bWrite[x] ); // writes the bytes
}
os.close();
InputStream is = new FileInputStream("test.txt");
int size = is.available();
for(int i=0; i< size; i++){
System.out.print((char)is.read() + "
}
is.close();
}catch(IOException e){
System.out.print("Exception");
}
}
");
}
The above code would create file test.txt and would write given numbers in binary format. Same would be output on the stdout screen. DIRECTORIES CREATING DIRECTORIES There are two useful File utility methods, which can be used to create directories: The mkdir( ) method creates a directory, returning true on success and false on failure. Failure indicates that the path specified in the File object already exists, or that the directory cannot be created because the entire path does not exist yet. The mkdirs() method creates both a directory and all the parents of the directory. Following example creates "/tmp/user/java/bin" directory: import java.io.File;
public class CreateDir {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String dirname = "/tmp/user/java/bin";
File d = new File(dirname);
// Create directory now.
d.mkdirs();
}
}
Compile and execute above code to create "/tmp/user/java/bin". NOTE Java automatically takes care of path separators on UNIX and Windows as per conventions. If you use a forward slash (/) on a Windows version of Java, the path will still resolve correctly. READING DIRECTORIES A directory is a File that contains a list of other files and directories. When you create a File object and it is a directory, the isDirectory( ) method will return true. You can call list( ) on that object to extract the list of other files and directories inside. The program shown here illustrates how to use list( ) to examine the contents of a directory: import java.io.File;
public class DirList {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String dirname = "/tmp";
File f1 = new File(dirname);
if (f1.isDirectory()) {
System.out.println( "Directory of " + dirname);
String s[] = f1.list();
for (int i=0; i < s.length; i++) {
File f = new File(dirname + "/" + s[i]);
if (f.isDirectory()) {
System.out.println(s[i] + " is a directory");
} else {
System.out.println(s[i] + " is a file");
}
}
} else {
System.out.println(dirname + " is not a directory");
}
}
}
This would produce the following result: Directory of /tmp
bin is a directory
lib is a directory
demo is a directory
test.txt is a file
README is a file
index.html is a file
include is a directory